Small business owners have been warned about a telephone scam offering cheap or heavily discounted advertising in local newspapers and magazines.
Devon and Cornwall Police say scammers have targeted at least three firms in North Devon during the last week. Each time, regular advertisers were offered discounted advertising space in a sister publication and asked for credit card details...
Police are warning residents about the latest scam that has seen some victims duped out of thousands of pounds.
Computer Software Service Fraud, also known as the Microsoft Tech Scam, relates to predominantly Indian call centres cold calling victims claiming to be from legitimate businesses, such as Microsoft.
The caller states that there is an issue with the victim’s computer...
Police are reminding the public to be vigilant about telephone scams and to follow some simple advice to prevent them from becoming a victim of this type of crime.
Devon and Cornwall Police have been working with partners and the community to raise the awareness of the sudden rise in elderly victims who are conned out of thousands of pounds by tricksters who convince them they are...
Trading Standards officers are calling on residents in Plymouth to expose scams and help stop more people from falling prey to clever cons that fleece them of thousands of pounds.
Scams Awareness Month launches on 1 July and will be highlighting how scams continue to flourish when people stay silent.
Figures show that less than five per cent of victims report scams to the...
A Plymouth couple is urging others to keep an eye on elderly family members after their 84-year old brother fell prey to a series of scams.
The retired couple from Peverell were shocked when they visited their brother’s home elsewhere in the city while he was in hospital and found hundreds of goods purchased in order to enter various prize draws as well as draw mailing invoices....
Elderly residents in Devon and Cornwall are being urged to be wise to a phone fraud where victims are being duped out of cash by people posing as police officers.
The offenders are targeting older people across the region, particularly in the Torbay and South Devon area, as part of a national scam which is commonly known as a ‘courier fraud’.
Police are urging householders to be on their guard following incidents of a phone fraud where unsuspecting victims are duped by people posing as police.
In the latest incident on Tuesday, an elderly man from Paignton was duped out of £12,000 by someone posing as a police officer from the Metropolitan Police who claimed that someone had been arrested in possession of his bank cards....
The Plymouth office of Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK’s largest independently-owned private client wealth managers, has expanded significantly in the last 18 months bringing in three new trainee investment managers; Rory Kilbride, James Holt and Thomas Pearson. All three are looking to develop their careers in Plymouth and are keen to enhance the development of the Plymouth office.
